As I sit coloring the Bible for my Precept on Precept Bible Study, a memory came and I had to share.

My brother has cerebral palsy. He can feed, dress, and toilet himself, but that is about it. He spends his days in a sheltered workshop. He also does jigsaw puzzles and knows every word to every Partridge Family song.

When he was little, he was given a little rubber squeaky lamb named Josie that he loved. Over the years, Josie has been worn out with love, like the Velveteen rabbit. Josie was replaced as long as they were still being made, and even now I hunt them down as antiques on eBay. The ones I find no longer squeak because the rubber has hardened, but they are still capable of being loved.

My brother likes to “read” books. I have no clue what he is thinking when he looks at the words. Does he understand any of it?  He can write out the words to Partridge Family songs, so he must be seeing something.   One day he got ahold of the family Bible. And the next time that my mom looked through it, she saw that the word “lamb” was underlined in every single place that it occurred. Lambs of sacrifice, lambs of the good shepherd and Lamb of God.

My mother was horrified! But now I can only smile and think that he was doing inductive study.